After leaving Manchester, Ryan returned to London and stayed at the Hilton Hotel, staring at his prey with the team sent by Scott. He quietly absorbed Manchester United's stock from the market, and he set up a special "Red Football" company for this acquisition.

For many years, Manchester United has been a model of commercial development in the Premier League and even European football, which has caused countless people to imitate and learn about it. However, it is this obvious business imprint that determines that the club will become the target of some sports speculators. In profitable situations, the power of capital is simply omnipresent.

In 1999, under the recommendation of Alex Ferguson, two Irish horse racing tycoons, Magneil and McManus, began to acquire Manchester United and quickly became the club's number one shareholder. The two people after the goal was achieved also showed the ruthless side of capital.

They gradually had conflicts with Alex Ferguson. In order to suppress Ferguson's status in the club and to ensure their own investment, they raised 99 questions, pointing to various questions from Ferguson and Manchester United's management, and even involved the head coach in the black gold scandal.

In fact, just like Hollywood, black gold is a well-known unspoken rule in the football circle. The most direct result of putting these things on the table is that they have become public enemies from fans to clubs to British football circles.

As for the authenticity of the black gold rumors, it obviously doesn't matter anymore.

In fact, Magneil and McManus don’t like football at all. The purpose of acquiring Manchester United shares is very simple, just to make money. From becoming a shareholder of Manchester United to now, they have not watched even one-minute games at Old Trafford Stadium.

Although the acquisition of Manchester United is also of a unimaginable purpose, Ryan feels that he is more suitable for Manchester United than them, because he has at least watched the entire game at Old Trafford Stadium.

"Notify them to pay attention to not exceeding 9.9% of the shares they have absorbed."

Because information must be released to the market once the holding reaches 10%, Ryan has been controlling his shares below 9.9% during the period before investing in Manchester United. "Also, how are the media prepared?"

“As long as we need it…”

George coolly bounced Taylor who was spinning around him, "They will make the biggest objection."

"Okay, follow the scheduled plan."

Ryan nodded, pulled Taylor over, and carried her into the music practice room regardless of the little girl's protest.

In fact, since the beginning of 2001, Manchester United's stock price began to rise. At that time, people only thought that this was the result of the team's record. However, they did not know that Ryan's foundation and several of Manchester United's informed shareholders have begun to absorb the market's stocks and increase their bargaining chips for themselves.

It is easy to imagine how difficult it is for an American to acquire one of England's most traditional and successful football clubs.

In his previous life, how many turmoil happened in Abramovich's acquisition of Chelsea and the Glazer family's acquisition of Manchester United? How many twists and turns did it happen?

Today's Premier League is not the Premier League in a few years, and traditional forces are more conservative and stubborn.

Although the British kept calling for Ryan to be successful today because of the long-term British education, when they touched the so-called traditional dignity of those guys who were sensitive and arrogant, they would definitely throw away all their previous remarks.

However, this is exactly the result he wanted. If this acquisition can make the whole of Britain and even North America uneasy, that would be his wish.

Aren't some people waiting for the opportunity? Ryan gave them the most suitable mobile phone.

The conflict between Manchester United's management and the Irish was sharp, and Ryan's intervention made them realize that this was a good opportunity to fight the Irish. David Jill came to the Hilton Hotel in London several times and tactfully encouraged Ryan to speed up the acquisition of Manchester United. The net worth of more than $15 billion on the Forbes rich rankings became the source of their confidence.

"We look forward to a person who truly loves football to take control of Manchester United clubs." This is what David Jill said during a meeting.

In May 2001, three days after Manchester United won the Premier League championship ahead of schedule, Ryan's "Red Football" company once again increased its stake in Manchester United by more than 10%, and officially announced this information to the market.

The market's reaction was quite calm. After all, even the top three shareholders of Manchester United could not rank in this amount. It's just that many people can't understand when did this superstar, who has always developed in the entertainment and media industries, become interested in football?

Well, he sang "The Cup of Life" a few years ago, which was one of the best football songs.

But what happened after that? He didn't seem to be in football-related occasions again? Could it be...

Just one day later, the Red Football Company released information again, announcing that it had reached an agreement with two Manchester United shareholders, McManus and Magniel, to buy their 28.7% stake, with the total price of the deal reaching £210 million.

So far, Ryan has 38.8% of Manchester United shares in his hands and has become the largest shareholder of the club.

According to relevant laws, 30% is the approaching point of investing in listed companies. Once this number exceeds, the intention to acquire must be expressed to shareholders.

When the fans had not yet had time to react, they received even more shocking news - capital from the United States wanted to acquire Manchester United in full!

The Kingdom of Great Britain has long declined. Although the British do not want to admit it, the world's most powerful country is the other side of the Atlantic. This is a consensus around the world.

The misconfrontation between the British and Americans is notorious, and the only capital they can still be proud of in front of those country bumpkins is tradition.

Football is also one of the traditions of this country. Now there is an American who wants to acquire Manchester United? Do they know how to play football?

Although the movies created and starred by that person are very popular with them, movies and football are different things!

When entertainment and football conflicted, Manchester United's backbone fan organization chose football without hesitation.

In Manchester United's home game over the weekend, winning the championship early is no longer the theme of the stadium. Rejecting Ryan Jenkins' acquisition and slogans and slogans to drive American capital out of Old Trafford have become the loudest voices on the stadium.

Even Ringer, who was the commentator, criticized Manchester United's approach, believing that this would lose the tradition of English football and bring bad atmosphere to the Premier League. He even vaguely criticized Ryan, saying that he should go back to the sets near Hollywood and London to continue shooting movies, and as an amateur, he should not interfere in professional football at will.

The tradition of English football?

In this case, Ryan would never go to watch the football live. After hearing Leinker's words from live TV, he couldn't help but think about the fine tradition of English football for a long time.

Drinking, fighting, low professional quality, wives of teammates and friends, and the "European Chinese Team" who fell out of the chain at critical moments. It seems that these are the fine traditions of English football?

After another Monday arrived, Fleet Street responded the most intensely. British media represented by the Daily Mail no longer cares about the so-called second hometown and criticized the acquisition on important pages, with several newspapers also publishing more detailed content.

"Ryan Jenkins is a movie star first, and secondly an investor. He has never been a Manchester, and he will never become a Manchester. His goal of investing in Manchester United is no different from investing in Yahoo at the time. It's just for profit. Think about it, when Yahoo encountered a crisis last year, he abandoned Yahoo without hesitation. What if Manchester United encountered difficulties? He bought Manchester United just to use the club to do his speculative business!"

This is an article in a local newspaper in Manchester, and the Daily Mail, which "explored" exclusive news, disclosed many so-called inside stories.

"As far as we know, Manchester United fans are in danger of division. Those younger generations of fans have a large number of Ryan Jenkins fans. Perhaps they believe that with Ryan's tens of billions of dollars in net worth, acquiring Manchester United may not be a bad thing. After the acquisition, he will pay out a large transfer fee to bring more stars to the club."

"We want to remind these people that Ryan Jenkins is indeed very wealthy, but 99% of his wealth is equity and fixed assets. With the Manchester United club's value of more than 700 million pounds, he will definitely not be able to take out such a large amount of liquidity."

"This newspaper has received the exact news. Ryan Jenkins can only spend 200 million pounds for this acquisition in the short term, and will inevitably adopt a leverage acquisition strategy. He only needs to use a very small capital as a basis, and then raise it from investment banks or other financial institutions, borrow enough funds to make the acquisition. After the acquisition, the debt will be paid with the future income of Manchester United Club, so that he can make a large profit with very little funds. However, Manchester United Club will have to bear huge debts from then on. If there is a little problem with its operations, he will face the risk of bankruptcy!"

Subsequently, another newspaper published an article supporting the evidence that JPMorgan Chase was raising related acquisition funds for Ryan Jenkins, and then a newspaper revealed that a company on Wall Street specializing in acquisitions was planned as a think tank for Ryan Jenkins.

After these related reports appeared, they instantly ignited the emotions of Manchester United fans. Various protests appeared on the streets of Manchester. Several fan organizations jointly stated that if Ryan succeeded in the acquisition, there would be no more fan in the stands at Old Trafford Stadium, and they would never make Manchester United a toy or money-making tool in his hands.

Not only Manchester United fans, but also many of them in London have voiced protests, and many even surrounded the Hilton Hotel and shouted protest slogans.
Chapter completed!